Vassilii Eroshenko, the Russian writer

Abstract

The article “Vassilii Eroshenko, the Russian writer” by Anikeev Sergey and Takeda Akifumi analyzes the aspects of literary works of the little-known in Russia symbolist writer Vassily Iakovlevich Eroshenko
(1889-1952) and the perception of his heritage in Japanese and Russian ranto ideas, he left Russia in 1912, spent much of his life in Japan and China, entered the circle of intellectuals in these countries, was a well-
known author of texts in Japanese and Esperanto and became the prototype of one of the heroes of Lu Xun. Primarily the article focuses on Eroshenko’s contribution to the Japanese children’s literature.

Keywords: Vassilii Eroshenko, biographical sketch, “douwa”-story, Akita Udzyaku, Ichiro Takasugi, Lu Xin.